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Intelligent To Do List App Any.do Raises $3.5 Million
- bornhuetter 13y agoThis app looks interesting, but the permissions are outrageous. Why does it need to read my call log and smses, directly make phone calls etc?
- neya 13y agoHint - You might be the product xD
- bornhuetter 13y agoYeah, I'm not going to be installing this. I've been paying for RTM Pro (Android) for a couple of years, but it's expensive and doesn't quite fit my workflow so I've been looking at alternatives. Not interested in what looks like invasive vaporware.
- krschultz 13y agoI have paid for RTM pro for years. It is money well spent every year. I have met the developer of the Any.do app, and he's a good guy. Vaporware it is not. But for an app I interact with multiple times every single day I have no problem paying money to avoid advertisements.
- pavs 13y agoHave you tried Wunderlist?
- metl_lord 13y agoThe Any.Do app allows you to add 'call back person' to your task list when you miss a call. You can call that person from the app.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoThey use missed calls to make reminders, and they seem to allow you to link a number to a task to ring it. Not necessarily outrageous if what their website suggests it does is true.
- goughjustin 13y agoI would guess the money is based on speculation that a larger company (dropbox, google, facebook) would purchase your company and add your feature to their existing product.
- mugenx86 13y agoCustomers, skills, and market position (as the go-to todo app) are all contributing factors. I think they intend to expand the scope of the services they deliver -- collect data and hopefully, sell out to a larger company.
- skreech 13y agoIntegrating services like Taskrabbit, home delivery etc, at least if some kickback scheme is available. Location-based ads based on "things to buy".
- joshuamerrill 13y agoAs was explained to me by a friend who founded a recently-acquired to-do list company, the opportunity is to monetize intent. That is, if my to-do is "take clothes to dry cleaning," the app might be able to suggest a better/closer dry cleaner. You can also imagine many similar opportunities around travel.
- sriramk 13y agoOrchestra raised a bunch of money for their todo app. And then they pivoted into Mailbox.
- asselinpaul 13y agoOne of the best about me page I've ever seen: http://www.any.do/about http://www.any.do/about
- vidyesh 13y agoWistia too has a good page http://wistia.com/about/yearbook http://wistia.com/about/yearbook Hint : Are you sure each profile has just one extra pose? Edit : I find this page weird but its still a different About Us page http://bkwld.com/profile http://bkwld.com/profile
- markdown 13y agoThe Wistia one is great, but that last one... WTF? Auto playing music went out of fashion in 1999. It's completely disrespectful to their users.
- cma 13y agoNone of the comments make sense because the title was changed.. wtf mods To answer the original question: because Yahoo! recently paid millions for the Astrid TODO list and is shutting it down, and VCs figure Google might want bragging rights over Yahoo! by buying a better one for even more money and shutting it down.
- neya 13y agoJust in case anyone else was wondering, the (incompetent) mods here have changed the title from: Can somebody explain where is the money in a to-do app? to Intelligent To Do List App Any.do Raises $3.5 Million If the comments don't make sense, then it probably was meant for the original title.
- gojomo 13y agoThat was a competent title change. The title isn't for adding snarky/leading/argumentative spin to a story.
- jimmytucson 13y agoHaven't seen that many Jews on one page since the book of Leviticus.